In the 1st episode of Lee Daniel's songs biz drama Empire, Lucious (Terrence Howard, Taraji P. Henson's Hustle and Flow counterpart) introduces his ex-wife Loretha "Cookie" Lyons as the "coronary heart and soul" of Empire Entertainment, the label she co-established in advance of receiving delivered off to prison for 17 years right after taking the tumble for their mutual drug offenses so that he could build, perfectly, a musical empire.